Annual Report Of A Retail Company

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Use the Internet to research an annual report of a retail company. Then, imagine you are an investor or creditor and suggest the ratios that you believe would provide an investor or creditor with the most important information needed to make accurate predictions about the company’s financial condition. When analyzing a company, is it more important to compare the ratios to competitors or to the company’s previous history? Provide a rationale for your response. Note: You must provide a link or instructions to the researched report.

Cognitive Psychology as a Discipline

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Defining cognitive psychology – addressing the following:

1. Four key milestones in the development of psychology as a discipline
2. Importance of behavioral observation in cognitive psychology

Minimum of two peer reviewed sources.

What may be beneficial or necessary for individuals or society to do if they have concerns in this particular or related areas of health.

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Introduction:

The problem/issue, disease or illness you are examining/exploring. Why it

is a concern to the individual and/or society and why it merits examination.

Literature Review:

Review what others have found and reported on already (researchers, authors, practitioners). Minimum of three peer reviewed journal articles from academic databases and/or other credible resources.

Finding:

What you have found related to topic from all sources. Will include personal experience, opinion and other findings from literature and research and possibly interviews or surveys.

Discussion :

What may be beneficial or necessary for individuals or society to do if they have concerns in this particular or related areas of health. This may include how Western approaches compare with Eastern medicine views and how they vary or parallel in terms of diagnosis and treatment.

Summary and Conclusion:

To bring more focus on what you believe to be a beneficial approach to dealing with problem. May be a combination of Eastern and Western ways. Don’t be afraid to speculate and make recommendations, especially with regards to lifestyle changes.

Reference:

Cite all reference materials in APA style and give credit where credit is due.

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Project Management – Case Q&A

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ead the Casa De Paz Development Project case study found at the end of chapters 1 through 5, CPM 4e and answer the following questions in a paper formatted using a question-response format:

Question 1 (taken from Unit 3) – If you were the project manager, what expertise would you like from the sponsor, stakeholders, or core team members to create a milestone schedule with acceptance criteria? Minimum 250 words.

Question 2 (taken from Unit 5) – What would you want to see in a team charter (i.e., rules of engagement) for this development project? Is this different (Agile environment) than other (Traditional – Suburban Homes) environments? If so, how is it different? Minimum 250 words.

Question 3 (taken from Unit 5) – List types of decisions that would need to be made and the appropriate person, group, or method for each, for example, individual team member, the collective team, scrum master, and/or product owner.

You will be assessed on content and mechanics.

Content (30 points/question): The content must be based on the case study materials and reading assignments. The PMBOK 6e and CPM 4e, along with other reputable resources can be used to supplement the responses through summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting those sources.

Mechanics (10 points): Each question response must be at at minimum 250 words. “Minimum” is that amount typically needed to meet expectations (to earn a “B”). To exceed expectations (to earn an “A”), a deeper discussion is needed. Each reference should be listed at the end of the paper following APA guidelines. Online blogs are not acceptable references. See Purdue OWL website for guidance on in-text citations.

Your Instructor will use Turn-it-in to ensure your paper is authentic work. To avoid plagiarism, see the course home page for more information and use the Purdue Online Writing Lab to learn how to paraphrase, summarize and cite the references you use in all academic writing assignments.

Casa De Paz Development Project

Casa de Paz is an intentional community supporting the trans- formative journey of recovery for Latina women and their chil- dren. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is just starting. The vision is to create a communal living space for multiple Latina women and their children. The women and their chil- dren also would have access to a variety of service providers in the form of graduate students living in the same building. Two possible buildings have been identified. Some of the many things that need to take place for this vision to become a reality are board and working group structuring, fundraising, accountancy, promotion, website development, community relations development, building purchase and renovation, pro- gram development, legal services, educational advocacy, and English as a Second Language (ESL) tutoring, among others. While every project has trade-offs, success on this project will be measured more on the creation of a safe environment with needed services than on cost and schedule.

Casadepazcinci.org

Why Is This Project So Important?

Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing violence in their home countries. In the United States, many of them

come from Latin America. Often, they lack communities for support and integration as they transition from their countries of origin. In addition, many face many obsta- cles to stability and flourishing. How would you put your life back together if you were a mother fleeing vio- lence in your country of origin, and once in a new coun- try, that same violence continues in your new home? Few spaces offer stability and encouragement in such circumstances, much less cultural sensitivities and pro- fessional services to facilitate the transformation to self- sufficiency and success. Casa de Paz/House of Peace is an intentional community that encourages and draws out women s resilience both by meeting them where they are and providing time and space to heal, recover, and grow. Most shelters for women and children are tempo- rary; the average stay is seven to twelve days. Casa de Paz provides up to six months of stability, community, and professional services to support women s growth along a continuum of self-sufficiency matrixes. It is a community that recognizes women s dignity and cele- brates each step toward the realization of their gifts as human beings.

Casa de Paz is an ambitious project with several dimensions to it. There is a shelter that provides six-month housing for families, along with professional services to support a process of healing and transformation. There is a support group for women that serves residents and nonresidents alike.

The early meetings for Casa de Paz include seeking volun- teers to serve on the board and the three main working groups. Then a facilitated meeting is being held to determine the minimal viable product (MVP) to build. This is an open and operating facility. Some of the features that are needed include a director, staff, a building, remodeling the building, funding, a website, programming, and volunteers. Organiza- tional responsibilities also must be defined. An important question is: What can Casa de Paz do quickly without waiting for other things to happen? What are some of the things they need to do concurrently? How many projects can each of the groups (the board and the three working groups) realistically begin right away?

Armed with the answers to these questions, each of the probable projects should have an elevator pitch:

What is included and why is it important? Then the most critical few projects can be selected, resourced, and chartered.

An example of an elevator pitch is: There is a need to acquire a building and there is competition for both buildings under consideration. One building is more attractive than the other as the cost is considerably less although the number of families served would be less.

Another elevator pitch is the need for website develop- ment. A fledgling website exists, but there are so many communication, fundraising, volunteer soliciting, and other possible uses of the website that early development is attractive. The elevator pitch could answer the following questions:

Why is enhancing the website so important? How can the website help us do other work we desire to perform? Where are we now? What do we want?

First, the organizational structure for Casa de Paz is in a sepa- rate document. We still need names of individuals who are volunteering for each working group. For this book, we will list names by first name and initial of last name to protect privacy.

How do you envision this organization operating? Casa de Paz has a strong ethos of community, rooted in values of human dignity and a recognition that all of us thrive better in an atmosphere of mutual respect and care. Every subset of the community, from board members to staff to volunteers and affiliates to residents, communicates care and respect in their interactions with one another. Other behavioral norms stem from both these values and the vulnerability of the popu- lation we serve. Given the need, at times, for the organization to respond rapidly to serious, stressful, even life-threatening situations, board members, working group members, and even volunteers need to maintain confidentiality, think carefully, use discretion, and behave in a trustworthy manner.

For each project selected, we will have one person from the board serve as sponsor (product owner) and one person from the respective working group serve as project manager

(scrum master). The product owner for multiple products is sometimes referred to as a product manager. This person is Gillian A. The chair of the board and the scrum master for the entire effort is ___.

Since Casa de Paz is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, part of the culture is voluntary. One challenge from a project man- agement perspective is to get people to commit to completing certain work according to schedule when many have other full- time jobs. Helping the project teams make team decisions may be relatively easy. The pillars of PMI s Code of Ethics and Pro- fessional Conduct of responsibility, respect, fairness, and hon- esty should be very well accepted and valued.

An Agile approach makes the most sense for this project as many of the requirements are poorly understood at the start and many things are changing rapidly such as having two buildings to consider with competition for both such that a third building might need to be found. Also, in Agile, we ask for commitment. If the team cannot commit to the body of work for the iteration, the plan is changed. The commitment is made at the team level at the start of the iteration.

Strengths-Based Leadership Discussion

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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already. —John Buchan It can be demoralizing when managers focus primarily on the deficiencies of employees, yet it can sometimes be difficult to see beyond the negatives. Strengths-based leadership is a management approach that not only recognizes an individual’s strengths, but also draws upon these strengths to enhance the dynamics of the workplace. Strengths-based leadership can be applied to employees performing at their personal best or to those who may need redirection. In addition, the principles of strengths-based leadership can be carried over to managers themselves. When nurse managers are aware of their own strengths, they can better leverage them to effectively manage difficult situations.

•Review the article “Know Your Own Strength.” How can strengths-based leadership improve the skills and attitudes of employees? •Reflect on your own personal and professional leadership strengths. Consider how you might use these strengths to manage staff members who seem to be disengaged or problematic. In addition, determine how you might use these strengths to resolve difficult situations between employees. •Recall a time when you either observed a disengaged or problematic employee(s) at work or observed a difficult or conflict situation between employees. •Imagine that you were the nurse manager in the above situation. How might you have used your strengths to effectively manage this employee or situation? Also, give some thought to the strengths of those posing the problem. How might you have used their strengths to resolve the situation?

Post an explanation of what you consider to be your top two strengths as a leader. Then, briefly describe the situation you selected and explain how you could leverage your own strengths (applying strengths-based leadership) to successfully manage that situation. Explain at least two ways you might also capitalize on the strengths of the employee(s) involved to successfully resolve the situation.

Required Readings Lussier, R. N., & Hendon, J. R. (2016). Human resource management: Functions, applications, & skill development (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. •Chapter 7, “Training, Learning, Talent Management, and Development” (pp. 234–274) Chapter 7 explores many types of training that organizations can offer new employees, such as on-the-job training, classroom training, and e-learning. It also highlights career development opportunities for existing employees. Manion, J. (2011). From management to leadership: Strategies for transforming health care (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. •Chapter 7, “Coaching and Developing Others” (pp. 283–349) This chapter compares the roles of leader and coach and explains why some leaders fail to employ effective coaching strategies. The author discusses coaching best practices and reviews in depth one practice, the six-step coaching model. Kanefield, A. (2011). Know your own strength. Smart Business St. Louis, 4(2), 6. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. This article provides simple rationale for employing strengths-based leadership in clinical settings. Tyra, S. (2008). Coaching nurses: A real example of a real difference. Creative Nursing, 14(3), 111–115. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. The author of this article uses an authentic coaching example to explain the stages of the coaching process. The author identifies coaching strategies as well as general feelings both the coach and the nurse might experience.

Speculate on the potential impact that either demographics or technology changes might exert in shaping the trajectory of adult education ten (10) years from now

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EDU 500 – Adult Learning Theory

(Prerequisite: EDU505 Contemporary Issues in Education or EDU525 Perspectives of Adult Education)

Week 1 Discussion

“Adult Learning in Contemporary Society”  Please respond to the following:

· Examine the fundamental impact of demographics and technology on contemporary adult learning overall. Speculate on the potential impact that either demographics or technology changes might exert in shaping the trajectory of adult education ten (10) years from now. Justify your response.

· From the e-Activity, examine Marshall McLuhan’s half-century- old perspective of technology’s role in influencing learning within the global village—a concept McLuhan had coined. Next, evaluate the relevance of McLuhan’s pronouncements in relation to technology’s fundamental role in adult education policies and practices within today’s global village.

Reference

Merriam, S. B., Caffarella, R. S., & Baumgartner, L. M. (2007). Learning in adulthood: A comprehensive guide (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Wiley.

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This case portrays a poor patient outcome after a misdiagnosis.

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Poor Patient Outcome Relying solely on the classic features of a disease may be misleading. That’s because the clinical presentation of a disease often varies: the symptoms and signs of many conditions are non-specific initially and may require hours, days, or even months to develop. Generating a differential diagnosis; that is, developing a list of the possible conditions that might produce a patient’s symptoms and signs — is an important part of clinical reasoning. It enables appropriate testing to rule out possibilities and confirm a final diagnosis. This case portrays a poor patient outcome after a misdiagnosis. Case scenario A previously healthy 35-year-old lawyer presents to a primary care office with a chief complaint of chest pain and a non-productive cough. The pain started suddenly 2 hours prior to coming to the office while the patient was sitting at his desk. The patient describes the pain as sharp in nature, constantly present but made worse with inspiration and movement, and with radiation to the base of the neck. His blood pressure in the right arm and other vital signs are normal. On physical examination the only findings of note are chest wall tenderness and a faint cardiac murmur. The ECG in the office is normal. The patient is observed for an hour in the office and assessed. He is diagnosed with viral pleurisy and sent home on non-steroidal analgesics. The following day the patient collapses at home and cannot be resuscitated by the paramedic service. An autopsy reveals a Type 1 aortic dissection with pericardial tamponade. Written Assignment: Developing a list of possible conditions that might produce a patient’s symptoms and signs is an important part of clinical reasoning. 1.As an NP in primary care what would you have done differently? 2.Discuss the importance of creating a list of differentials for this patient. How could it have changed this outcome? If a serious diagnosis comes to mind based on a patient’s symptoms: •Ask yourself; Have you considered the likelihood of it and whether it needs to be ruled out by testing or referral? •Because many serious disorders are challenging to diagnose, have you considered ruling out the worst case scenario? •Ask yourself: Do you have sufficient understanding of the clinical presentation to offer an opinion on the diagnosis? •What other diagnosis could it be? How might the treatment to date have altered the patient outcome? •What other diagnostic and laboratory or imaging was needed in order to make a complete differential list? What support tools would you consider using in helping to create a differential diagnosis list? •Are you familiar with the current clinical practice guidelines for the investigation of a suspected condition such as chest pain? To view the Grading Rubric for this Assignment, please visit the Grading Rubrics section of the Course Resources. Assignment Requirements: Before finalizing your work, you should: •be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above); • consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and • Utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors. Your writing Assignment should: •follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.); • be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful; • display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and • use APA 6th Edition format as outlined in the APA Progression Ladder. How to Submit:

1.Discuss the differences between a leader and a manager.

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1.Discuss the differences between a leader and a manager.
2. Which is more important, working for an effective leader or an effective manager? Explain your answer.
3. Observe the nurse manager in a unit to which students have been assigned. What management style is displayed? How does the staff respond to this style
4. What qualities do you think are most important to be a good nurse manager?
1. Interview the nurse manager on your assignment unit. What interpersonal, decisional, and informational activities does he or she complete on a daily basis?
2. You are the nurse manager on your unit. One of the most experienced staffers has been out on sick leave, and another just had a baby. The rest of the staff are working very hard to pick up the slack to avoid using agency personnel. What tangible and intangible rewards might you use to thank the staff?
3. PART 1: Begin by writing a 50-word description of the ideal nurse manger, someone you would like to work for. Describe a real-life nurse manager whom you have encountered in one of your clinical rotations. What qualities of this person meet your ideal? In what ways does this individual not meet your ideal? (Reminder: nobody’s perfect.)
PART 2: Think about becoming an ideal manager yourself. What qualities of an ideal manager do you already possess? What qualities do you still need to develop? How will you accomplish this?
1. Find your own state’s requirements for informed consent. Do elective procedures and emergency situations use the same standard?
2. Obtain a copy of your state’s Nurse Practice Act. Does the act give adequate guidance for nurses to know if an action is within the scope of nursing practice?
1. Explain how the Nurse Practice Act in your state provides for consumer protection and for professional nursing progress.
2. What are your thoughts on multistate licensure? How does it strengthen and weaken professional nursing?
3. As a new nurse, how can you ensure confidentiality in clinical settings?
4. How can nurses safeguard the confidentiality of medical information when sending it by fax or e-mail?
5. Explain the role of the nurse in obtaining informed consent. Do you believe that this is within the scope of nursing practice? Explain your answer.
6. Should nurses carry malpractice insurance? Explain your answer.
7. Should all patients have advance directives? Explain your answer.
8. Should employers be permitted to require nurses to work overtime if there is a shortage of registered nursing staff on a unit? Support your answer with evidence from the literature.

Conflict Resolution Paper

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Conflict Resolution Paper Guidelines

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to learn how to identify and effectively manage conflicts that arise in care delivery settings resulting in better management of patient care, including appropriate delegation. You will gain insight into conflict management strategies and develop a plan to collaborate with a potential nurse leader about the conflict and its impact in a practice setting.

Read Finkelman (2016), Chapter 13: Improving Teamwork: Collaboration, Coordination, and Conflict Resolution, section on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, pp. 324-333.
Observe nurses in a care delivery setting. Identify a recurring conflict with the potential to negatively impact patient care. Decide if delegation was an issue in the conflict. This should be from your practice setting or prelicensure experiences.
Provide details of what happened, including who was involved, what was said, where it occurred, and what was the outcome that led you to decide the conflict was unresolved.
Identify the type of conflict. Explain your rationale for selecting this type.
Outline the four stages of conflict, as described in our text, and how they relate to your example.
Propose strategies to resolve the conflict. Search scholarly sources in the library and the Internet for evidence on what may be effective.
Discuss if delegation was an issue in the conflict. Be specific.
Describe how you would collaborate with a nurse leader to reach consensus on the best strategy to employ to deal with the conflict.
Describe the rationale for selecting the best strategy.
Provide a summary or conclusion about this experience or assignment and how you may deal with conflict more
Write a 5-7 page paper (not including the title or References pages) using APA format that includes the following.
Describe an unresolved (recurring) conflict that you experienced or observed. Identify the type of conflict.
Provide details of what happened, including who was involved, what was said, where it occurred, and what was the outcome that led you to decide the conflict was unresolved.
Outline the four stages of conflict, as described in Finkelman, and how the stages relate to your example. Decide if delegation was an issue in the conflict. Be specific.
Describe the strategies for conflict resolution and how you would collaborate with a nurse leader to resolve the conflict. Cites the course textbook and two scholarly sources.
Provide a conclusion or summary about this experience and how you may deal with conflict more effectively in the future.

This assignment provides you with an opportunity to summarize ethics in financial responsibilities and to evaluate ethical considerations of executive compensation by writing a persuasive essay.

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This assignment provides you with an opportunity to summarize ethics in financial responsibilities and to evaluate ethical considerations of executive compensation by writing a persuasive essay. In your essay, take a position on the following topics, and support it with evidence. Evidence can be facts, statistics, and quotes from scholarly articles, reliable news BBA 4751, Business Ethics 5 sources, or even anecdotal examples from personal experience. You may use any of the readings from this course, or you may find new ones to support your position. At least two pieces of evidence should be used (one for each topic). 1. Do you think executive compensation in its various parts (i.e., salary, stock options, severance packages) funded at the current level is unethical? If so, how would you revise the compensation so that it was just? On what basis would you change it? Does the government have a role to play? If so, in what manner? 2. Is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act too strict, not strict enough, or just right? Explain. Your essay should be at least 400 words in length, double-spaced, and written in Times New Roman, 12-point font. Use APA Style to format your citations.